[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Depends on your income. Enough wealthy people get away with vehicular manslaughter with a few months of domiciliary arrest, that it is essentially a meme in the US legal system. While a poor person of color would get shot at on the spot by police for knocking on the wrong door. Land of the free…etc.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago

Lots of questions posted here are not genuine questions. Instead they are socio political comments trying to manufacture gotcha replies for controversy.

Those are not stupid questions, they're rethorical questions. They are not what the community is for.

"No stupid questions" means that genuine good faith seek of knowledge or dispelling basic ignorance will not be shamed. Political rethorics will be shamed though. Thoroughly downvoted and mocked.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It has nothing to do with advertising. The phrase refers to bias and stereotyping. It is not about the book, it is about the person doing unfair judgment based on superficiality instead of knowledge.

There are no covers that are not carefully chosen for the book they accompany. The source of error lies on the beholder making false assumptions about what the book is, then passing judgment on said book they haven't read based on limited information and most likely incorrect assumptions.

The phrase calls people to check themselves and their own biases before making decisions with limited information. Or at least to search for some more data with curiosity instead of bias.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

To be a creepy perv. It was obvious since first revealed.

Also, Google glasses were just as creepy. Thy worked in the technical sense. Complete social and market failure though.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

They're just impractical Bluetooth headphones.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Heroic replaces all the functionalities of lutris without being near-vibe coded.

There's a manual install feature that allows for the same flexibility without any fuss.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I know it is your dream. But, doing a presentation while wearing sunglasses indoor doesn't exactly transmit humanity, connection nor empathy. I would nope out of that presentation. Everything else is just an app. They are all non-critical things, they don't require a HUD.

Anyways, that's irrelevant because meta glasses don't have screens. So, no AR functionality.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Because accessibility is DEI.

/s

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

No, it's that bad actor who showed up in a single Game of thrones episode.

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submitted 1 year ago by dustyData@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world

The company changed names and was sold in a stock restructuring. They took the money from community backers, refuse to deliver the books to them. Now they claim they have no responsibility to pay author's royalties for books already sold, they also don't have money to deliver or ship books. Half the people who work there quit. It's 238 authors who are collectively owed more than £650,000.

Link is one YouTuber's account of the situation from the POV of an author.

Here's a news article about the situation: “If I wasn’t so f*cking angry, I’d laugh”: Boundless delays author payments

And another: After Unbound’s Collapse, Boundless Faces Uphill Battle to Rebuild Trust

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submitted 2 years ago by dustyData@lemmy.world to c/movies@lemmy.world

“Johanne Sacreblu”, Mexican artists react to Emilia Pérez with a parody criticizing the film's misrepresentation of Mexican, and Queer culture. It raised 43,000 Mexican pesos ($2,100 USD) on GoFundMe. It is now fully available for free on YouTube.

https://www.tomatazos.com/sin-categoria/johanne-sacreblu-la-parodia-mexicana-que-responde-a-emilia-perez-expone-con-humor-los-cliches-franceses/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18188737

Venezuelans are ready to throw off the dictatorship. Will the international community support us?

By Maria Corina Machado

I am writing this from hiding, fearing for my life, my freedom, and that of my fellow countrymen from the dictatorship led by Nicolás Maduro.

Mr. Maduro didn’t win the Venezuelan presidential election on Sunday. He lost in a landslide to Edmundo González, 67% to 30%. I know this to be true because I can prove it. I have receipts obtained directly from more than 80% of the nation’s polling stations.

We knew that Mr. Maduro’s government was going to cheat. We have known for years what tricks the regime uses, and we are well aware that the National Electoral Council is entirely under its control. It was unthinkable that Mr. Maduro would concede defeat.

We Venezuelans have done our duty. We have voted out Mr. Maduro. Now it is up to the international community to decide whether to tolerate a demonstrably illegitimate government. The repression must stop immediately, so that an urgent agreement can take place to facilitate the transition to democracy. I call on those who reject authoritarianism and support democracy to join the Venezuelan people in our noble cause. We won’t rest until we are free.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 228 points 2 years ago

This sucks but it is a hard lesson about dealing with large companies. If any company wants anything that doesn't comes off the shelf of the store, they have to pay upfront. Pay has to be by a certain amount of days in advance of delivery date or the date is not guaranteed and will be late. Work doesn't start until payment is done. If they want to pay after delivery, sign a contract, require an advance of at least half of the bill or materials cost (whichever is highest), non-refundable, include a cancellation fee. Put this shit up as terms of service on a website and direct everyone to that page whenever you are contacted by a new client. The larger the client company, the more important it is to be this strict. For you it might be a bankruptcy inducing amount, but to them it will be immaterial pocket change, so you have to hold your ground.

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Courtesy of @RaoulDook.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 232 points 2 years ago

No matter how expensive a home sim you make, it won't ever get be even a quarter of what an actual entry amateur plane costs to buy and maintain. It's not even the plane itself either, it's all the recurring costs like storage, maintenance, spare parts, fuel, certification fees, taxes, etc. The only cheap flight option for a recreational pilot is bushcraft light planes. And they will still cost more than the sim setup, while you'll only be able to fly it on certain places, during certain weather, at certain times of the year. The rest of the time you'll still have to pay all the storage and maintenance fees. Planes are incredibly expensive.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 230 points 2 years ago

Wanna get even angrier? Since the cease fire was agreed, Israel released 150 Palestinian people. In that time, they have also made 133 new arrests of Palestinians for the crime of…celebrating the release of Palestinians.

If this were done by a movie villain, people would criticize it for being too cartoonishly evil and unrealistic.

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Same title as the video. Game dev writer Alanah Pierce offers her POV on the recent layoffs from Epic Games.

This is one of the few industries that consistently and continuously posts record profits while also firing everyone who put in the work to make the success possible.

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I don't mean system files, but your personal and work files. I have been using Mint for a few years, I use Timeshift for system backups, but archived my personal files by hand. This got me curious to see what other people use. When you daily drive Linux what are your preferred tools to keep backups? I have thousands of pictures, family movies, documents, personal PDFs, etc. that I don't want to lose. Some are cloud backed but rather haphazardly. I would like to use a more systematic approach and use a tool that is user friendly and easy to setup and program.

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